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bed English

Meaning bed meaning

What does bed mean?
Definitions in simple English

bed

A piece of furniture to sleep on. At night, I go to bed. The bottom of a river or ocean. The fish was so far down in the water that it was touching the river's bed.

bed

To have sex with someone. By the next week, Josh had bedded Tina and Holly.

bed

a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep he sat on the edge of the bed the room had only a bed and chair a plot of ground in which plants are growing the gardener planted a bed of roses a depression forming the ground under a body of water he searched for treasure on the ocean bed (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock) they found a bed of sandstone a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track the track bed had washed away the flat surface of a printing press on which the type form is laid in the last stage of producing a newspaper or magazine or book etc put to bed The children were bedded at ten o'clock furnish with a bed The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit he worked in the coal beds (= go to bed, turn in) prepare for sleep I usually turn in at midnight He goes to bed at the crack of dawn (= sleep with, know) have sexual intercourse with This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm Adam knew Eve Were you ever intimate with this man?

Synonyms bed synonyms

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Topics bed topics

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Conjugation bed conjugation

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bed · verb

Examples bed examples

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Simple sentences

Most people have great disinclinations to get out of bed early, even if they have to.
You must go to bed now.
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
There is a cat under the bed.
I'm going to bed.
I went to bed after preparing everything in advance.
You had better put out the fire before you go to bed.
It's too early to go to bed.
Please turn off the light before you go to bed.
She usually goes to bed at nine.
Father is still in bed.
Put out the light and go to bed.
To be a good child, you need to go to bed and get up early.
Don't hide under the bed.
I have to go to bed.
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
It would be better for you to stay in bed today.
You had better go to bed now.
Which bed do you want to use?
You may as well go to bed at once.
What time do you usually go to bed?
It's time for me to go to bed.
The whole house was ill in bed.
What time do you go to bed?
I had to stay in bed all day.

Movie subtitles

Would she fit beneath the bed, mom?
And you can keep his bed.
Um, I'm just wondering what's going on with her bed.
I'm gonna move into Victoria's old bed.
I just pushed her a little bit on the bed, just jokingly, like pretending that I'm like scaring her.
Get on the bed. Get onto the bed!
The bed?
Stay in bed.
Emma, come on, it's time for bed.
Emma, it's time for bed.
So, after the role-playing had finished around midnight, you went to bed?
Bed is unmade.
Once Susan's in bed.
There's no bed.
Go to bed.
I'll go make your bed.
But if, on a glorious day, in a bed of the loveliest flowers, you were to find a grim monster which put you in a bad mood?
Notice how the sick person is laying naked in bed.
Notice how consciously this unconscious woman holds onto her bed.
What do you think of when you go to bed, you beast?
The first morning saw us up at 6, breakfasted and back in bed at 7.
We got so we were able to be in bed by 6:30.
Do you mind if I go to bed?
Now get to bed!
We'll have to take a bath before we go to bed.
I can only lie in bed for so long.
I lay in bed for quite a while, reading.
Get on the bed.
Get onto the bed!
You will be restored to your bed in a matter of moments, and the mattress will thank us for our attention.
It might give them bed bugs something less to sink their teeth into.
I'm gonna go to bed, 'cause it's the one thing I'm good at.
Rebecca, I put your outfit on your bed.
You, Pistachio, will sleep on this bed.

News and current affairs

The problem is that most of Africa is too poor to mobilize the methods of prevention (bed nets) and treatments (anti-malarial medicines) that could save millions of children every year.
Only when the annual rains begin in the summer does water reappear in the river bed.
Our analysis investigated, for example, the merits of more targeted policies for the near term: purchasing mosquito-resistant bed nets and oral re-hydration malaria therapy for children in the poorest nations affected by climate change.
Yet bed nets and anti-malaria medicines do not reach the people who need them, because the people who need them are too poor.
Red Cross chapters across Africa, in partnership with other organizations, are now distributing bed nets free of charge to impoverished families, in the same way that Rotary has been distributing polio vaccines.
Buoyed by assurance of recovery, the half-dead patient would leap out of bed, start running, jumping, and eating normally, and would soon be restored to full vigor.
British voters, still wobbly from Osborne's medicine, can be forgiven if they decide that they should have stayed in bed.
Instead of using them to control bugs, bed nets and drugs to fight the disease should be used.
Prevention is best accomplished by modern anti-malaria bed nets, which are treated with insecticide.
First, Africa's poor cannot afford insecticide-treated bed nets and the correct medicines.
If rich-country governments thought practically about malaria and recognized that it is a full-scale emergency, they could support simple and practical solutions: bed nets and timely access to medicine.
Rich countries would buy bed nets from companies that produce them and work with African governments to distribute them free of charge to every African household.
Rather than giving away bed nets, rich-country organizations like the United States Agency for International Development try to sell them to the extreme poor, albeit at heavily discounted prices.
Over the objection of the aid skeptics, the Global Fund provided financial support for massive free distribution of bed nets, diagnostics, and medicines to address malaria.
Abroad, Egyptian lawmakers were so exercised over the prospect of the French head of state sharing a bed with his girlfriend that several vented their disapproval on the floor of the parliament.
Before long, she is cheating on her boyfriend and swooning into Song's arms and bed.
But there is no institutionalized means to discuss and resolve the dispute, which is taking on greater significance almost daily, owing to the belief that vast mineral and energy resources lay on the sea bed around the Spratlys.
Many spend their days lying in bed, where they develop major health problems including bedsores, muscle atrophy, spinal deformities, and breathing disorders.
Sacking your entire cabinet when everyone thinks you are home sick in bed only adds to this impression.
Chernomyrdin, an acting president whenever Yeltsin took to his sick bed, acquired excessive power insofar as Yeltsin was concerned.
Contrary to how it may feel when you try to get out of bed in the morning, gravity is by far the weakest fundamental force of all we have identified.
And more than 100 million long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets have been distributed in the fight against malaria.
The air was stale but heavy with the stench of death in interrogation chambers, barren save for a single bed frame, shackles, and a chair.